Rapid7 Vulnerability & Exploit Database

OpenSSL bn_wexpand() memory allocation failure (CVE-2009-3245)

OpenSSL bn_wexpand() memory allocation failure (CVE-2009-3245)

Severity

10

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

03/05/2010

Created

07/25/2018

Added

09/16/2010

Modified

02/13/2015

Description

OpenSSL before 0.9.8m does not check for a NULL return value from bn_wexpand function calls in (1) crypto/bn/bn_div.c, (2) crypto/bn/bn_gf2m.c, (3) crypto/ec/ec2_smpl.c, and (4) engines/e_ubsec.c, which has unspecified impact and context-dependent attack vectors.

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